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`Apr. 24, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord
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> *Pulled from* [[3-Travels-in-Calradia-(DLC)]] — “Istiana's agent, Zorgan, was a merchant here. He was very curious about my travels, especially about prices and availability of goods. He spoke mostly about politics. His outlook and prejudices reminded me of my own father (Valicos Sr.) - when things went wrong in a kingdom, it was always because the Prince, hungry either for power or the adulation of the mob, had refused to listen to the wise old men. Zorgan's family was from a leading family that had sat on 'the Vech', the town council. Raganvad's father (Vadinslav) had dismissed them, threatening to hang them for treason, when they balked at paying for a war. In the old days, he said, anyone could summon 'the Vech' just by ringing a great bell in the marketplace. Raganvad's father had melted down the bell and used it to make bronzed helmets for his druzhina bodyguard.” — “Zorgan was a great admirer of Olek Kuloving. Olek, he said, was leading resistance in the Sturgian council of Boyars to a law that would allow Raganvad to hire one of the mercenary bands of the north, possibly 'the Shield Brothers' (Skolderbroda), and place them under royal protection. This would give him troops that would rally to his banner more quickly and readily than the Boyars, without needing to raise taxes. But Zorgan griped that this would mean that foreigners would go strutting around the realm as though they were Boyars. He said that some Boyars, who licked Raganvad's boots, would back the law, but men like Olek, who recognized that Sturgians had pride, would never stand for this.”
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